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AMHP Workshop: Working with the Police & MDT
2026-05-12 13:30 - 16:30 (Europe/London) | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
This workshop focuses on the practical use of Section 135, including application thresholds, planning, execution, and post‑entry decision-making. It explores the AMHP role within multi‑agency working, particularly alongside police colleagues, and considers how legal powers are used proportionately and defensibly in complex situations.
Using practice scenarios and discussion, the session supports AMHPs to strengthen decision-making, evidence legal reasoning, and navigate the interface between mental health law, public protection, and human rights in real-world contexts.

Session 4 - Section 13 Interviewing in a Suitable Manner & Whole Circumstances
2026-05-13 09:30 - 16:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
This session develops skills in person‑centred, legally informed interviewing within Mental Health Act contexts. Participants will explore what “interviewing in a suitable manner” means in practice, with a focus on communication, power, rights, and whole‑circumstances assessment in Section 13 decision‑making.

Session 1: What is Social Work in Mental Health Settings?
2026-05-19 09:30 - 12:30 | MS Teams (Session 1), https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/37061193563587?p=3ZbEde6RWnN1LiDB9p
Join us for Workshop 1 of the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Social Work CPD Programme 2026: What Is Social Work in Mental Health?

This first core workshop builds directly on your induction month and marks the start of the programme’s live workshop session.

The session will explore the core purpose, identity and contribution of social work within mental health systems. You’ll explore your understanding of role clarity, values‑led practice and the distinctive social work perspective across adults, children, young people and older people’s mental health pathways.

Date: 19th May 2026
Time: 09:00 (Room Opens)
09:20 – 12:30 (Session Runs)
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Module 2, Session 2: MCA and Best Interests
2026-05-22 10:00 - 12:00 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
Please Note: This workshop is repeated 26th and 27th May – you only need to attend the session once.
This practical workshop provides a clear introduction to the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and its application in everyday practice. It supports practitioners to understand when and how to assess capacity, and how to make lawful, defensible best interest decisions that respect individual rights while safeguarding wellbeing.
The session explores different types of decisions, the principles that underpin the MCA, and the importance of supporting autonomy, consultation, and advocacy. Through discussion and applied examples, participants will build confidence in using best‑interest frameworks and understanding how the MCA applies in complex or fluctuating capacity situations across health and social care settings.
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Module 2, Session 2: MCA and Best Interests
2026-05-26 10:00 - 12:00 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
Please Note: This workshop is repeated 22nd and 27th May – you only need to attend the session once.
This practical workshop provides a clear introduction to the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and its application in everyday practice. It supports practitioners to understand when and how to assess capacity, and how to make lawful, defensible best interest decisions that respect individual rights while safeguarding wellbeing.
The session explores different types of decisions, the principles that underpin the MCA, and the importance of supporting autonomy, consultation, and advocacy. Through discussion and applied examples, participants will build confidence in using best‑interest frameworks and understanding how the MCA applies in complex or fluctuating capacity situations across health and social care settings.
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Module 2, Session 2: MCA & Best Interests
2026-05-27 14:00 - 16:00 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
Please Note: This workshop is repeated 22nd and 26th May – you only need to attend the session once.
This practical workshop provides a clear introduction to the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and its application in everyday practice. It supports practitioners to understand when and how to assess capacity, and how to make lawful, defensible best interest decisions that respect individual rights while safeguarding wellbeing.
The session explores different types of decisions, the principles that underpin the MCA, and the importance of supporting autonomy, consultation, and advocacy. Through discussion and applied examples, participants will build confidence in using best‑interest frameworks and understanding how the MCA applies in complex or fluctuating capacity situations across health and social care settings.
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Induction & Social Model 3.0
2026-05-28 09:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
A regrounding in contemporary social work values within integrated care systems, covering rights-based and social model practice, lived experience, neurodiversity, co-production, and updated evidence and frameworks shaping mental health policy.

Legal Literacy & Defensible Practice
2026-05-28 09:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
Building sophisticated legal capability for complex environments, including MCA, MHA, HRA and LPS intersections, ethical justification and record-keeping under scrutiny, and court expectations with defensible decision-making tools.

Moral Injury in Social Work Practice
2026-05-28 09:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
Understanding moral injury versus burnout, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma; exploring triggers such as resource scarcity and conflicting duties; and focusing on restoration, repair and creating a personal Moral Sustainability Plan.

Substance Use, Dual Diagnosis & Complexity
2026-05-28 09:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
Enhancing confidence in high-risk and multifactorial presentations through work on polysubstance use and ARBD, co-occurring and chronic complexity cases, and the trauma-substance interplay in assessment and formulation.

Trauma Informed and ND Inclusive Practice
2026-05-28 09:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
Strengthening practice through deeper psychological and sensory understanding, including trauma-aware planning and intervention, ADHD/autism-informed social work, and misdiagnosis, stigma and culturally safe practice.

Crisis Decision-Making Under Pressure
2026-05-28 09:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
Strengthening defensibility and clarity under time-critical conditions with rapid MCA and risk formulation tools, managing AMHP-practitioner interfaces, and balancing ethics, pressure, risk and rights.

Workshop 1: Social Model 3.0
2026-05-28 09:30 - 12:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
This opening workshop sets the foundation for the full CPD programme, revisiting the social model through a contemporary, integrated care lens. Moving beyond traditional binaries, Social Model 3.0 explores how rights-based practice, lived experience, neurodiversity, and co-production intersect within today’s complex mental health systems.
Participants will reflect on the evolving role of the mental health social worker within multidisciplinary and statutory contexts, reconnecting values to real-world practice pressures. The session introduces updated frameworks shaping current mental health policy and practice, creating a shared language for capability, ethical decision-making, and defensible social work throughout the programme.Designed to be reflective, accessible, and future-facing, this workshop provides a strong grounding for both newly qualified and experienced practitioners working in complex environments.

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Motivational Interviewing · Skills Masterclass
2026-05-28 09:30 - 2026-12-02 12:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
An advanced, practice-heavy skills development module focused on motivational interviewing with complexity and ambivalence, real-time skills coaching with scenarios, and supporting change in high-risk contexts.

Domestic Abuse Advanced Practice
2026-05-28 09:30 - 2027-02-04 12:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
Building deep specialist knowledge for safeguarding and relational risk, including non-fatal strangulation, online coercion, trauma bonding, cultural and intersectional patterns in domestic abuse, and safe engagement with perpetrators.

Statutory Roles & Court Skills
2026-05-28 09:30 - 2027-03-03 12:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
Practical and confidence-building development for tribunal and court-facing practice, covering structured report writing, professional analysis, tribunal and MoJ expectations, and managing scrutiny and cross-examination.

Digital Practice, AI Ethics & Online Safety
2026-05-28 13:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
Developing essential modern practice capability in digital footprints and evidence, online coercion and exploitation, and the ethical use of AI in assessment and decision-making.

Systemic & Network Approaches Masterclass
2026-05-28 13:30 - 2026-11-04 13:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
A practice-rich session developing systemic fluency in complex cases through Social GRACES, systemic questioning, relational scripts, CMM mapping, network analysis, and multi-agency application.

Coventry AMHP Peer Group Supervision (2)
2026-06-03 09:30 - 11:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
This peer supervision group provides a confidential, supportive space for AMHPs to reflect on practice, share professional dilemmas, and think collectively about complex decision‑making. The session is practitioner‑led and discussion‑focused, supporting critical reflection, professional curiosity, and shared learning across diverse AMHP experiences. It is not case management, but a structured opportunity to step back, test thinking, and strengthen professional confidence within a psychologically safe peer setting.
Our mid‑year AMHP supervision session will focus on consolidating learning, checking in on pressures across the service, and creating space for collective thinking. Feel free to bring any examples of good practice, challenges or patterns you’re noticing.
See you there for those that can make it
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AMHP Refresher: Multigenerational Trauma & Mental Health
2026-06-04 09:30 - 16:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
Multi-generational trauma refers to the emotional and psychological wounds that are passed down from one generation to the next, often without clear awareness or understanding.
This one-day AMHP refresher explores how these legacies can emerge through patterns of behaviour, family beliefs, silence around painful events, or deep-seated emotional responses that seem to “echo” across generations.

AMHP Workshop: Section 117 Aftercare
2026-06-17 13:30 - 16:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
A practice‑focused session examining how section 117 operates beyond the theory. Using examples and discussion, we will explore defensible decision‑making, proportionality, and recording when planning, reviewing, or discontinuing aftercare arrangements.

AMHP Workshop: s117 Aftercare
2026-06-17 13:30 - 16:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j

Session 2: Personality Disorder Core Clinic
2026-06-24 09:30 - 12:30 | MS Teams (Session 2), https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/35168057433195?p=o70YWuxrfKuzu3LCWQ
Join us for Workshop 2 of the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Social Work CPD Programme 2026: Personality Disorder Core Clinic.

This session aims to deepen your understanding of personality disorder through both trauma‑ and attachment‑informed lenses. It will support you to recognise the relational, developmental and systemic contexts that shape presentation, risk and need, and build your confidence in responding to complexity from a grounded, social perspective starting point.

Date: 24/06/2026
Time: 09:00 (Room Opens)
09:20 – 12:30 (Session Runs)
Teams Link: Join the Training 🙂

AMHP Peer Supervision Group - Session 2
2026-07-07 09:30 - 11:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
This peer supervision group provides a confidential, supportive space for AMHPs to reflect on practice, share professional dilemmas, and think collectively about complex decision‑making. The session is practitioner‑led and discussion‑focused, supporting critical reflection, professional curiosity, and shared learning across diverse AMHP experiences. It is not case management, but a structured opportunity to step back, test thinking, and strengthen professional confidence within a psychologically safe peer setting.

Session 3: Legal Literacy & MHA Overview
2026-07-07 09:30 - 12:30 | MS Teams (Session 3), https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/36498059902093?p=QPZEZYV0s3ob590qbZ
Join us for Workshop 3 of the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Social Work CPD Programme 2026: Legal Literacy & MHA Overview.

This session strengthens your confidence in navigating the key statutory frameworks that shape mental health social work practice. You will explore the intersections between the Mental Health Act (MHA), Mental Capacity Act (MCA), Care Act, S117, the Human Rights Act, and Children Act duties, and examine how these frameworks interact in practice across multi‑agency and multi‑disciplinary settings.

Date: 30/06/2026
Time: 09:00 (Room Opens)
09:20 – 12:30 (Session Runs)
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AMHP Workshop: Self-Neglect & Hoarding
2026-07-15 09:30 - 12:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
This session explores the interface between self‑neglect, hoarding, the Care Act, and the Mental Health Act. It focuses on risk, capacity, engagement, and lawful AMHP decision‑making in complex, non‑linear situations.

August 2026: Guided Learning Month
2026-08-03 - 2026-08-28 | DCC-i Portal
August is a Guided Learning Month, providing structured, self‑directed CPD in place of a live workshop. This month is designed to give you protected space to consolidate learning from the first three workshops, deepen your reflective practice, and prepare for the next stage of the programme. The Guided Learning Month offers a flexible but purposeful structure, enabling you to engage independently or with peers at a pace that fits your workload. Activities draw on the programme’s core commitment to trauma‑informed, legally literate and analytically confident mental health social work.

Additional materials will be available on the DCC‑i Programme Hub, including reflective prompts, reading bundles, trauma‑aware tools, mini‑scenarios, and critical analysis activities, all designed to help embed learning across the workforce.

Coventry AMHP Peer Group Supervision (3)
2026-09-02 09:30 - 11:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
This peer supervision group provides a confidential, supportive space for AMHPs to reflect on practice, share professional dilemmas, and think collectively about complex decision‑making. The session is practitioner‑led and discussion‑focused, supporting critical reflection, professional curiosity, and shared learning across diverse AMHP experiences. It is not case management, but a structured opportunity to step back, test thinking, and strengthen professional confidence within a psychologically safe peer setting.
As we head into the autumn period, this session is a chance to regroup, reflect on the past quarter, and look at any shifts in workload, MCA/MHA interface issues, or emerging themes in decision‑making. We’ll shape the agenda around what you need on the day.
See you there for those that can join us

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AMHP Peer Supervision Group - Session 3
2026-09-02 13:30 - 15:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j

AMHP Workshop: Older Age & Mental Health
2026-09-17 09:30 - 12:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
This session focuses on mental health practice with older adults, including split readiness, diagnostic complexity, and domestic abuse in later life. It supports AMHPs to navigate overlapping legal frameworks and nuanced safeguarding considerations
